Beautiful Games: basketball diptychs by Oliver Laric

As part of his ongoing body of work titled
Versions, Austrian born artist
Oliver Laric has created these wonderful basketball diptychs. Juxtaposing pictures cut from magazines with drawings by Takehiko Inoue from the Japanese manga publication
Slam Dunk, the work reflects Laric's obsession with repetition, mutability and appropriation. Seen in its entirety, Versions is an engrossing body of digitally-manipulated work and includes elements from his hilarious
El Hadji Diouf animation. Laric is represented by Seventeen Gallery in London and exhibited at last year's Frieze Art Fair